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Barn at Ysgafell

Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, designated on 9 May 1988.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of Barn at Ysgafell, Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Listed building, Grade II
Broad class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Date of designation
9 May 1988
Community
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
Unitary authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Coordinates
52.51009, -3.36153
Cadw reference
8213

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1899 · 164 Llanidloes (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Cadw's description

In a farmyard at the side of the road near the community boundary. Sited upslope and behind the farmhouse.

C16?, six-bay, cruck framed lofted cowhouse. Painted brick front and side end walls, rear elevation timber framed, much altered. Steeply pitched, hipped slate roof, oversailing eaves.
Modern agricultural windows, plank doors.

5 cruck trusses, blades cut below elbow to rest on wallhead to front. Through purlin collared full crucks, bow blades tennoned. Tie beams secondary. (C17?) and contemporary with insertion of loft. Original lower tie beams removed. C17 partitions and loft divisions, (now removed on ground floor).

Building may have been erected as a barn.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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